MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s arms control center officials warned Donald Trump’s incoming administration on Friday that Moscow was considering a range of possible measures over nuclear tests due to Trump’s aggressive stance on the issue.
Kommersant quoted Sergey Ryabkov, deputy foreign minister in charge of arms control, as saying that Trump took a radical stance on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) during his first term. .
Ryabkov said: “The current international situation is extremely difficult, and all aspects of U.S. policies are extremely hostile to us.”
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“Thus, the selectivity of actions to be taken to ensure safety, and the complexity of possible measures and actions to achieve this goal, as well as sending politically appropriate signals in addition to those being considered by practitioners, does not contain any exceptions .
According to a 2020 report by the Washington Post, during Trump’s first presidential term from 2017 to 2021, his administration discussed whether to conduct the United States’ first nuclear test since 1992.
Post-Soviet Russia has yet to conduct nuclear tests. The last time the Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test was in 1990.
According to the Arms Control Association, only a handful of countries have conducted nuclear weapons tests since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991: the United States last tested in 1992, China and France in 1996, India and Pakistan in 1998, and North Korea in 2017 Year.
(Reuters; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
